LAURA SECORD'S BRAVE WALKAmerican and British forces are fighting for control of Upper Canada (now Ontario), causing many hardships for the Secords, but through them all Laura displays strength and resourcefulness. While "[c]annons and muskets roared deafeningly all around" and the "smell of sulphur from the guns hung thick in the damp air," the woman hides her children in the root cellar and rescues her wounded husband from enemy fire. When American soldiers arrive at her house and order her to prepare them a meal, she is determined to find out their military strategies. Overhearing their plans for a surprise attack on the British at Beaver Dams, Laura immediately resolves to inform Lieutenant FitzGibbon. Her 19-mile journey is full of obstacles-rattlesnakes, mosquitoes, swamps, quicksand-but she doesn't stop until she relays her message.

2000

unpaged

Figley, Marty

WASHINGTON IS BURNINGThe story of how President Madison's young slave Paul Jennings helped Dolley Madison save valuable items in the White House from the advancing British Army during the War of 1812.

2005

48 p.

Greeson, Janet

AN AMERICAN ARMY OF TWODuring the War of 1812, Rebecca and Abigail Bates save their
town's ships from the British by playing "Yankee Doodle" on a fife
and drum to simulate the approach of American troops. Scituate area of
Massachusetts, sometime during the summer of 1814.

1992

46 p.

McCully, Emily Arnold

THE BATTLE FOR ST. MICHAELSIn 1813, 9-year-old Caroline, a fast runner, helps the residents of St. Michaels, Maryland, as they defend their town against the British.

2002

64 p.

Minahan, John

ABIGAIL'S DRUMDuring the War of 1812, when British soldiers threaten the
town of Scituate, Massachusetts, young Rebecca Bates and her sister,
Abigail, daughters of the local lighthouse keeper, find a way to save
both him and the town.

1995

64 p.

Mandrell, Louise

SUNRISE OVER THE HARBORIn 1814 Nathan Dunn, a 10-year-old cabin boy serving on an
American ship, meets Francis Scott Key during the great naval battle
at Fort McHenry and becomes a hero. Baltimore.

CROSSING THE PANTHER'S PATH16-year-old Billy Calder, son of a British soldier and a Mohawk woman, leaves school to join tecumseh in his efforts to prevent the Americans from taking any more land from the Indians in the Northwest Territory.

1999

153 p.

Buckey, Sarah Masters

THE SMUGGLER'S TREASURESent to live with
relatives in New Orleans during the War of 1812, 11-year-old Elisabet determines
to find a smuggler's treasure to ransom her imprisoned father.

1999

153 p.

Rinaldi, Ann

BROKEN DAYSBook #2 of The Quilt TrilogySequel to: A stitch in time.
For sequel see: The blue doorIn 1811, life with her Aunt Hannah in Salem, Massachusetts, becomes even more difficult for fourteen-year-old Ebie with the arrival of a half-Indian girl who claims to be the daughter of Hannah's sister, Thankful, and with the threat of impending war.

1995

273 p.

Robinet, Harriet

THE TWINS, THE PIRATES, AND THE BATTLE OF
NEW ORLEANS12-year-
old Afro-American twins attempt to excape in the face of pirates, an American
army, and the British forces during the Battle of New Orleans in 1815.

1997

134 p.

Robinet, Harriet

WASHINGTON CITY IS BURNING
In 1814 Virginia, a slave in President Madison's White House, experiences the burning of Washington by the invading British army.

1996

149 p.

Trotter, Maxine

UNDER A SHOOTING STARCircle of Silver ChroniclesSequel to: A Circle of Silver and By the Standing StoneIn 1812, Edward McNeil is escorting Kate and Anne Kimmerling home to America when the ship on which they are traveling sinks and the three are shipwrecked on an island in the middle of the conflict between the British and the Americans.

2002

212 p.

Whelan, Gloria

ONCE ON THIS ISLAND12-year-old Mary and her older brother and sister tend the family
farm on Michigan's Mackinac Island while their father is away fighting the
British in the War of 1812.